You buy the WOPR utilities which include this. It comes with Using Office
Special Edition.
http://addbalance.com/word/wordbooks.htm#WOPR

Or you change the date on your computer to the other date and create a new
file based on the same template and copy in your contents to the new file.

If you are doing this to bolster a lie of some sort, realize that there will
still likely be traces.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Formerly Dan" Formerly wrote in message
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I need to backdate a Word document. How do I change the created date in the
document properties?